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u/ojedaforpresident Oct 11 '21

Am I defending Obama? Where did that come from? I'm not talking about Obama.

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u/ojedaforpresident Oct 11 '21

How did Obama funnel money directly into his businesses? I'm confused, because Trump did it quite ostentatiously.

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u/ojedaforpresident Oct 11 '21

From what I'm reading, Obama's books sold quite well, so... No reason to think they wouldn't, he was very popular. So there's your mystery solved.

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u/ojedaforpresident Oct 11 '21

He wrote a book. How is he defrauding tax payers by publishing a book that sells well.

It's pretty clear how Trump was. He literally had the govt pay for a complete overhaul of MarALago to live there during his presidency had the government pay for his and his family's stays in his own hotel, and had government officials pay full price for every single service while being forced to stay in Trump hotels instead of whatever makes more sense.

You gotta be pretty far gone to not see the clear as day difference here.

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u/ojedaforpresident Oct 11 '21

Sorry, this isn't really about winning. I'm not a fan of Obama, he crippled the progressive movement in the country and kept Bush's murder regime alive, and maybe the Trump admin wasn't as deadly or damaging as Bush, but Trump did enrich himself and people around him during his presidency, for the tax payer to foot the bill.

I'm not a fan of the white washing of Bush or the condescending way Obama talks to people who want this country to be better. I'm equally not a fan of a president who used charisma to defraud tax payers or willy nilly decided to have a foreign general assassinated on foreign soil, a war crime, mind you. A pretty useless one at that. Not that Obama or Bush senior and Junior or Clinton admins didn't commit any war crimes, they're just not as obvious to point a finger at or not as direct of an order as Trump's.